Barack Obama on Foreign Policy

 FactCheck: Campaign prevented committee meetings, not rules. (Sep 2008) Kissinger agrees with me on meeting with enemy leaders. (Sep 2008) FactCheck: Kissinger opposes presidential meetings with Iran. (Sep 2008) Important to undo the damage of the last seven years. (Feb 2008) Never negotiate out of fear, and never fear to negotiate. (Jan 2008) President must abide by international human rights treaties. (Dec 2007) Obama Doctrine: ideology has overridden facts and reality. (Dec 2007) China is a competitor but not an enemy. (Dec 2007) No Obama Doctrine; just democracy, security, liberty. (Oct 2007) $50B annually to strengthen weak states at risk of collapse. (Aug 2007) No "strategic ambiguity" on foreign policy issues. (Aug 2007) My critics engineered our biggest foreign policy disaster. (Aug 2007) Meet with enemy leaders; it's a disgrace that we have not. (Jul 2007) We cannot afford isolationism. (Mar 2007) Protested South African apartheid while at college. (Feb 2007) Never has US had so much power & so little influence to lead. (Jul 2004) US policy should promote democracy and human rights. (Jul 2004)

 We must be tough with Pakistan & stop coddling Musharraf. (Sep 2008) Must be tough on Iran, but talk to them too. (Sep 2008) Learned privilege of being American by living in Indonesia. (Jul 2008) U.S. needs to ameliorate trade relations with China. (Mar 2007)